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| − | I have a business need to open up the company intranet to employees' home PCs -- basically for telecommuting purposes of non-geeks. However, we safely presume that those PCs are already part of somebody's botnet and we don't want them to pollute our otherwise relatively clean network. Unfortunately it's just too expensive to send company-owned PCs home with employees and to maintain them properly. Therefore I would like to see someone put together the following Linux distro or explain to me how I would roll it myself. (Is there some kind of GUI tool that would let me pick and choose the individual modules and packages (and their dependencies) to be rolled into a custom Linux? Maybe there is one somewhere, I just don't know what it's called.)
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| − | The distro I'm looking for (or to build) would:
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| − | a) MALAYSIAN VERSION KNOPPIX LIVECD
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| − | b) Boot the widest possible number of home PCs, assuming that the end user can be trusted to boot from CD or USB and his children can help him set the BIOS for auto-boot from USB,
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| − | c) Upon boot, auto-launch a VPN session to the company intranet as a prerequisite for doing anything,
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| − | d) Run a GUI desktop that will NOT grant the user the ability to see or to configure "system" or OS-specific parameters,
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| − | e) Restrict the sites to which the user's browser may visit to a predefined list of "company" and "business partner" sites,
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| − | f) Run a firewall that makes the PC appear to be a "black hole" to the barbarians on the Internet
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| − | g) Run Open Office, a browser, imap mail client and some custom company-only apps.
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| − | h) No IM, no chat, no network-aware daemons other than those already mentioned, no developer tools -- a "no frills" workstation.
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| − | i) Boot and execute from a 2GB USB drive or smaller,
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| − | j) Boot from a live CD if necessary, but run from the USB drive for obvious performance reasons.
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| − | k) Does NOT touch the underlying PC's hard drive(s) in any way.
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| − | l) Would not be useful for anything except talking to the company intranet and its systems.
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| − | Thus the employee would boot this distro for work purposes and when finished, would reboot into Windows (or whatever) as he normally would for his personal use. In return for letting the company borrow his PC for an hour or two per day, he could telecommute and have a life.
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| − | * a Real windowz replacement Desktop Linux:
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| − | ** should run on any machine starting from 386/486 cpu with 32mb ram...
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| − | ** Xinerama
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| − | ** tinyX or other small X
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| − | ** with wine (or cedega?) preinstalled and configured, ready to run many windowz progz
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| − | ** with rdesktop, vnc, ica client, and other clients ready to connect to any terminal server and can also act as one.
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| − | ** preinstalled all small apps for everyday use: browser, mail, office suite, etc...
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| − | ** clustering will be great here. so that less used pc can give their cpu power to other pc that is heavily used.
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| − | *** i'd try lots of so-called small distro, like damnsmall, puppy, feather, etc... none of them runs on my pentium I 150mhz, 32mb ram, 1gig hdd
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| − | * HotSpot Knoppix. a plug-n-play wireless hotspot. including captive portal, radius server, user authentication, wpa2, HostAP, WiFiAdmin, add/remove user, billing
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